You may already know that two human Editors review every article that is submitted (1st editorial review and a Quality Control 2nd review), but what you may not know is how many additional people are involved behind-the-scenes in touching every single article submission to ensure the success of each member, user and internal user of our platform.

As many as 15-17 people are involved in every single article submission transaction!

Example activities include:

Ensuring the servers are operating efficiently to all of the error/handling

API’s to all of our internal systems that ensure the continuity/accuracy of our databases

Most of our software platform development philosophies are kept fairly confidential because this is our “secret sauce” for how we deliver a delightful experience to our users, members, partners, employees and everyone involved in EzineArticles System.

Four things to share about our Development Team:

Speed Rules – Everything revolves around benchmarking, delivering speed, tweaking code to improve performance, and using analytics and various other tools to measure our performance so that we can continually improve how fast we deliver all of our services externally and internally.

Think in Scale – Everything we create must be able to handle massive future scaling requirements.

Constant Innovation is What Makes Us Tick – Members, users and our internal team provide constant feedback combined with our own analytics data as the basis for our priorities and all yet-to-be-released features.

Build Trust – Trust is built on database integrity, consistency of performance, uptime and speed of accessibility.

Most of our developers are working on multiple projects at once from a list of at least 100 different feature requests or process improvements. I’m proud of our team – their efforts form the foundation of our platform and cement our ability to execute our business strategy and to deliver on every single expectation of the million+ daily visitors to the site!

I often get the credit here in the Blog when new features roll out, but it’s our team of Developers who deserve the credit. They are the “secret sauce!” :-)

You are absolutely correct. However, until more women decide to be geeks the picture will continue to look like that. When I was taking classes for my Masters in CS, I was often the only female in the class. I was the only female from the US in my program. No one tried to discourage me from taking CS. In fact, they wanted me in the program for “diversity.” So, it boils down to the choices women make. By the way, I was also an “old woman” – most of the students were my kids age!

In any case, Go Team! Your software is very robust! Or, at least it is from the front end! I know what the backend can look like!

It is obvious to me that the combined efforts are preceded by the intent of each member to advance the capacity of the human species to communicate ideas to the whole. That you are enabling people of like interests to find like ideas. You are possibility enablers and you open the space for those who are looking for specific answers to their dreams and to attract them. The rippling effects of your efforts are only beginning. To the team of leading edge spirits, I salute you all.

I don’t think some truly realize the amount of time and energy put into this site. I am not an “expert” in the field of website development and just the little I do is crazy confusing, so to have a great team as you all work so hard at keeping this place running smooth, YEAH to you! You guys rock, thanks for all you do!!

I think some of you are focusing on inter-group diversity (diversity within the group), but what about intra-group group
(diversity amongst the groups)?

Why does every group have to be internally diverse? I never really understood that. Sometimes you want everything to be the same color, don’t you? Ironically, if EVERY group was internally diverse in color, then all the groups would be the same, thereby succeeding in doing the exact opposite of what you intended.

If you really wanted to have diversity you would have to have some groups that are all black, some that are all white and some that have all the other various combinations. True diversity, then would have to have every mathematically possible combination of all the races, which would include groups of 1 color, 2 colors 3 colors etc. etc. Not even to mention, gender, nationality, etc etc., boy it gets complicated.

I think the diversity experts recommend, for best business practice, that you represent your community (customers). So, if your customers are half black and half white, then your staff should be too ( I don’t personally agree, but that’s what I heard). If you guys wanted to do this, I guess you would have to recruit people from outside your geographic area.

I think you guys are the best article bank on the internet. I see you guys really dominating even more so in the future, probably taking over the other article directories.

I guess I should have just made this an article. Thanks for everything, Good Job!

Now for the software plan to make EzineArticles staff racially balanced to their customer base:

User Requirements Update:
1) A user will be forced to indicate their diversity configuration before they receive an account.
2) To be sure the user isn’t lying, the account will not be activated until DNA proofs of diversity factors are produced.
3) Users will be assured that their diversity pool will be equally represented in staff by a capture algorithm. That is, once the new diversity factor Y is determined at X period (or should this be real time?) EzineArticles Search and Capture team will scour the international pool of programmers for new programmers to meet Y diversity factor, capture the required number of programmers and import them to Green Bay, WI. Should it be determined that the current situation (at any time point X) is over populated with diversity factor Y, those current team members will be fired with a suggestion that they be sent to replace the new member and thereby increasing the diversity factor of that location.

Further Study Needed the author understands that some areas of Brazil and China have excellent programmers, and these areas are not balanced to Caucasian males of European descent.

Conclusion and Recommendation:
We feel that this plan will actually meet the additional goal of balancing the diversity factor of other geographic locations. Therefore we recommend that the Search and Capture team be funded by grants.

Thank you very much for the great work that you do to provide a great user experience. I know that the technical challenges that you deal with every day are very trying to say the least! Keep up the good work.

thanks for all you do so that we just have to think about our articles. It’s so much easier working with your platform that quite a few others. Here I am, and here I stay! And the ideas and the execution are what keep me not only writing, but enjoying being part of the family of writers. thanks so much!

I have written several time to suggest that EzineArticles add a government or public sector category; there is nothing remotely related to what I prefer to write about – public management, public leadership, and preparing communities for a challenging future. Your editors are super … but please add some categories dealing with government

I just received a package in the mail that was such a surprise. It was a gift from EzineArticles for my reaching Platinum. How exciting to have some tangible connection to your team. Thank you so much.

Dear,
It is always that, even for a small thing to take shape, there is a lot of behind scene activity; and it is the politeness of the master to share the credit with those actually work. See for an example, in a drama how many are involved in the behind scene activity. Thanks, the Developers.

I saw “Green Bay” in the fine print somewhere before I even started with you guys, and I knew you were great! Grew-up in Madison and always have been a Badger, thanks for being better than I expected. I think most of you were involved in getting my first article on board… Thanks!

It is obvious that there is lot of back-end work required to make things go smoothly and lively. All of you are doing great jobs and the fruits are there for every-one to see. Appreciate the co-ordination and the team-work. Keep it up.

OK about the women on the team. We know Chris is open and ready to hire women. So maybe the question we have here is why aren’t women in tech moving to this area? and why aren’t more training in this area… this is an opportunity! Go Chris! and thanks developers!

Most excellent question Ann! I saw several women quit the CS undergrad program because it was “too hard” – math and logic. Another question is, “Why don’t more girls tinker with programming at home as teenagers?” I found that a lot of the young men in the undergrad CS classes were already fairly competent programmers by the seat of their pants learning as teens (bad programming form, little knowledge of programming theory, etc, but they could write code that works). So, the women students (such as myself) actually start the program behind. My own daughter opted for Psychology. I bet if you walked into a Psychology class, you would find mostly women – why is that?

Love these threads! They always inspire article ideas. I believe much of this has to do with how we are raised as children. I encourage all four of my children (2 boys, 2 girls) to explore any interests they have, regardless of whether society deems it more appropriate for a male or female. I hope this helps them grow up without the binds of sexual stigma so they can be anything they want to be.

You are so right! And, while I would like my daughter to study some sort of engineering or science based field, it’s her choice to study psychology (grumble, grumble). And, while she could earn a lot more in engineering, she has chosen psychology (grumble, grumble). And, while I find software engineering to be infinitely more interesting than psychology, she doesn’t (OK, mom is staying mum about it.)

You do such a great job. I’m impressed with EzineArticles ranking and the large scale of your operation. I also like how you are forward thinking, adding more reasons to write on EzineArticles.
Those T-shirts are C O O L !

Have we failed to thank the wonderful team who makes our lives and businesses great? Without these great people who work for EzineArticles, no matter their color or sex, we would not be where we are today.

I for one am so very grateful for EzineArticles and consider Chis and everyone who works at EzineArticles, as a team when I think of them. After all this is about saying thank you and admiring the talents that these young people offer us.

You speak of accessibility. I am fairly new, and have written a few articles, which have been put in the PET category. Why, with so many articles, do you not organize them, so that one can find an article? They are all over the place. Unless you know the actual title, you cannot find an article. They are endless. Is there no SORT on your computers? Or do you not consider it important? It is somewhat demeaning to be lumped in a bunch, do you not think?

90% of our users land directly on an article of which 50% come from search engines and the other 40% come from a combination of in-house permission-based email alerts, RSS feeds, widgets and direct type in traffic.

If giving a lot of attention to massive sub-categorization would increase traffic; we’d have done that years ago. I’m not convinced it will increase traffic anywhere near the proportionate amount of effort required to deliver high-speed sorting.

I was fairly sure that an extraordinary team had to be behind an extraordinary service. Nice to see their faces. I plan to use EzineArticles a lot in the days to come, and while it is always nice to relate to people personally, their faces on photographs are an acceptable substitute. I had only seen photographs of Christopher Knight earlier!

Nice post and good to see that you are promoting the team behind the site. Having worked in the tech business for too many years in behind the scenes roles it can be a little demoralizing when you never get any exposure.

I want to say thank you very much all of you guys, because I’m pretty new as member of EzineArticles and make a lot of errors additionally because english is not my native language (spanish is). So I think means double o even triple effort to review every single article, that people like me sent you. Nevertheless I appreciate all your dedication including the very tiny details, even when sometimes has represented to me a rejection to publish an article by problem resolution issue. Far for give up for that, I am encouraged to improve my skills as writer every day and get first platinum status and then accomplish the goal of 3rd #HADH. By the way thank you also for all the valuable training information. Keep the great work.